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Pin1 protein associates with neuronal lipofuscin: potential consequences in age-related neurodegeneration
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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:08 authored by Lida Hashemzadeh-Bonehi, Roger Guy Phillips, Nigel John Cairns, Sabrina Mosaheb, Julian Robert ThorpePin1 protein is a peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase that modulates the activity of a range of proteins involved in cell function. We and others have demonstrated neuronal Pin1 deficits in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and have shown similar deficits in frontotemporal dementia and in aging. Pin1 may, in fact, be a susceptibility factor; others have shown that Pin1 depletion causes apoptosis in HeLa cells. Further, patterns of AD pathology correlate with regions of lower Pin1 expression in normal human brain; Pin1 knockout mice suffer neurodegeneration; and Pin1 can ameliorate p-tau pathology by isomerising p-tau, facilitating its trans-specific dephosphorylation and restoring its ability to bind to and re-stabilise microtubules and thence cytoskeletal integrity. Here, we report a novel localization of high levels of Pin1 with lipofuscin in aging neurons. This association could progressively drain available Pin1 and be deleterious to neuronal function during aging. We also show that Pin1 associates with lipofuscin when lipofuscin accumulations become marked and correlate with susceptibility to neurodegenerative disease. Our data are consistent with the possibility that neuronal Pin1 deficits may be a contributory factor in neurodegeneration associated with aging.
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Experimental NeurologyISSN
0014-4886Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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2Volume
199Page range
328-338Department affiliated with
- Biochemistry Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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